iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

I have jailbroke my i4 last year, its been running great. about 8 months ago, cydia disappeared, gettting api unavailble errors.
can still download some apps, but a good plenty of them get errors. The cdma i4@ ios 4.2.8 at bb 1.0.06 I saved my shsh blob,
somewhere but before i upgrade, i wanted to make sure what are my best options like upgrade ios and rejailbreak or try to solve
the api problems if possible to keep ios 4.2.8 or move on. Any good pointers from the gurus here? also, i have been getting those
silly java errors when i try to start tinyumbrella so i can save my shsh blob. thanks in advance...

Re: iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

thats exactly what was on my mind, it was to ditch the ios4 and go on to 5.1.1 One problem though, i would sure like to re-save my shsh blob.
All day today i was trying to get tinyumbrella to work without any java jre errors. any of guys resolved any jre errors? thanks

Re: iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

Re: iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

I knew it felt to good too early... my next hurdle,

I used laelipoo's, instructions link to upgrade ios/5.1.1 all stages of restore went fine,entered dfu,
after limera1n stage, the restore menu >>extras>even more->restore menu pops up, all the info is
displayed(build, blobls local and remote is selectable.) ecid:xxxxx bottom message:iphone 4-vzw(pwned dfu mode)
it just sits there, the next button is not highlighted or back or quit.. what gives??? phone is still in dfu mode..

could my downloaded ios 5.1.1 possibly be corrupted? (the downloaded ios 5.1.1 was renamed as .ipsw instead of the .zip)

iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

You did the part where you stitched the blobs together?
And then you selected that new stitched blob?
The download should've come as an ispw, looks like a little whit box with some music symbol on it. Simple name...
Then you use redsnow to stitch your recently saved blobs. So you end up with another ipsw, this time the name isn't do simple... But same look.
Then you connect your phone to redsnow, get to restore,
If I remember correctly you select the firmware first (?) then redsnow guides you through dfu mode...
Your last post seemed a little out of order

iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

So take the fresh stock apple 5.1.1 firmware.
Use redsnow and select the shsh blobs for 5.1.1 from your device.
Let redsnow stitch those blobs together for a custom 5.1.1 stitched firmware.
Tell redsnow to restore using the newly created 5.1.1 stitched firmware

You can either tell it to upgrade the baseband or not. Doesn't matter.

i see that dev team says that. i was very unlucky when i tried restoring with redsnow... however i belive i was using redsno 15, not 15b2 or 15b3....
i was thinking that if he had problems using the simple way that maybe he could use stitched files.
im really confused though as to whats going on op....
you on windows or a mac?
xp? vista or 7?
what zip program are you using? winzip? 7rar? etc?
does the ipsw you downloaded look like this?
where did you save it to on your computer? save it somewhere its relly easy to find and point to (desktop)

iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

Just a quick point redsn0w dumps a copy of your blob/s in the redsn0w folder locally, where you launch redsn0w from. Then you can point at if from there. That's how I've always done it by stitching the firmware to a local copy. Redsn0w may be different to when I last used it back on one of the previous versions.

Good luck with it, you are in very capable hands with 3cit and Laelipoo. ;-)

Re: iphone 4 ios 4.2.8 jailbroken problems

It verified many times that the blob for my device was out there at cydia/remote, but nothing found on locally. but when i actually try to get to get the blob it gives out a message, ' that no blob for this device(4.2.8) was not found on cydia'. So might have to just upgrade to 6.0.1 ota itunes and downgrade like 3cit said..

few months ago, i jb a iphone4 on 5.1.1 which was the current ios at the time, it was piece cake with no problems.